- I found the novel A thousand dreams of Stellavista by J.G. BALLARD at kinokuniya Paragon, in a huge book compiling all his stories.
Read the story for next Tuesday, and we will start discussing the idea of a building, a construction being affected by its inhabitants.
- Focus now your exploration of the intangible (be it about politics, spirits, ghosts, fantasies, predictions, mythologies, history, dreams, fictions, rituals, common beliefs, etc.) on WATER.
Water as a physical metamorphic element, as a threat for Bangkok, as an accepted condition in the past, as a obscure infinite substance filled with fears and wonders...
- Think of this project as the design of a vessel (not necessarily to contain a body) but to travel; physically, imaginatively, as a remembrance, a sensation or as a projection.
- Finally, consider the location of the proposal, at the very entrance of the University... in the symmetry axis of control.
An essential reading for you (for this project but more than anything for yourself as a thinker and a designer of public places
Michel Foucault, Discipline and punish (1975) - here an article on panopticism
and here the entire book (from someone...)
- And remember that this project will comprehend fabrication: as a process of design, fully part of the proposal, and not as an addition of detail drawings at the end of the design phase.
Begin a research on hand crafts of Thailand, know-how and traditions, possible digital crafts to be developed, or driven from your own field of interest...
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